Hearing his words, we nodded as we shared some drinks with him. Seeing the drinks, he looked at us strangely but still took the glass.
Seeing him taking the glass, we smiled and started drinking, but instead of drinking, he was just staring at the glass, as if the drinks had a story behind them.
So looking at it, I was quite pleased and thinking about some interesting story that was about to be heard by me.
Soon, the king spoke: 'My name is Jivan. I was praised as "king of humanity" in my realm, and people in my kingdom never faced any crises in anything. We developed our realm to the point where even the gods were envious of my realm. As we had all sorts of wonder in our realm, our technologies rivaled God's entire existence in terms of power and stability! We developed so many things that even gods feel like miracles: longevity, immense strength, and the power of creation and destruction! We had it all; we even knew how to travel to different timelines! '
Hearing his words, our eyes were somewhat opened because he was telling us that he created all sorts of miracles in his realm.
The dreams of countless mortals: longevity, travel, and strength!
Even thinking about it gives goosebumps to my bum, but as I was thinking, I remembered that I also had something that felt like a cheat, something that dissolves all sorts of logic: my pen, the pen that was named as 'The Pen of Fate'!
Hearing these guys' words, I could only think about my pen. So now, hearing his words, it felt like the pieces of the puzzle started to mix, and to give confirmation to this theory,
I received a notification: "The user has successfully understood the region of the pen; another seal from it is about to be removed. Better take precautions, or the energy might start manifesting!" Seeing such a notification, I was feeling nothing but pressured because I was around Ashoka and this king guy.
If either of them felt the energy of this pen, then surely it could give rise to trouble, and if I suddenly started to randomly use my abilities, then they could become more sketchy about me, and this was really bad, so I had no choice but to shift this pen from my inventory to my inner core. But it was not possible by normal means because the pen was a physical object, and putting a physical object in the core was impossible, but I could do something that could help me with this trouble: a void element!
This element had the power to teleport its leaking power, and it would also help in maintaining the physical state of the pen in my core.
But the real trouble was my core only, because my core is the entire source of my energy, and it doesn't work with seals; that means I would have to place my pen in an energy source that contains the countless skills, stats, and even titles.
Just thinking about it was making me pee, but I knew if I didn't pull this situation, then I would be a loser to even think about escaping it.
So while maintaining my composure, I started focusing on the void element and teleported the pen from inventory to my body, but the moment the pen entered the body, a strange surge of energy came out of him, causing my control to break, and it fell in my stomach while tearing my internal organs.
Feeling such pain and still maintaining my composure was more hellish than any experience I ever had, because the energy fluctuations from the pen were tearing apart my organs, and due to being near my core, it was even shaking my core to some point.
Seeing my forced expression, both of them asked me about my health, but I could only just pretend that it was alcohol, but in reality, I could feel my blood spilling like crazy, and due to the energy from the pen, it was raising the temperature, causing the blood to evaporate while I was feeling my entire life shaking in front of me.
I thought about trying again, so I again focused and lifted that pen, and the pain was also feeling a bit less. Feeling that I might be able to succeed, I came near my core, and the moment I touched it, the immense aura from the core reacted to the pen, causing it to fly away.
Feeling the pressure, I could feel blood around my lips that was about to gush out from my mouth, but still, I was trying my best to hold on, and the situation was more dire than I thought.
Due to being around them, I was not even able to properly circulate my energy. Well, now I was cursing myself for my own smartness.
If I had taken his tale as a mere tale of tragedy, I wouldn't have gotten into this situation, but now here I was struggling to keep up with the events. The king continued his tale by saying,
"We were living quite cheerfully, and we had no trouble with any resource unless the gods decided to visit my realm and gave me temptations of being a god in exchange for the authority of my realm.
At first, I denied them, but then, seeing my people's desires, I came up with things that I would not give my realm to anybody, not even gods.
But my people were greatly displeased by it because they were thinking that if I could become a god, then there wouldn't be anything for them to worry about, but I knew that no fruit falls on its own; there's always someone who must have pulled the string.
But at one time, I forgot this rule and lost everything I had: my family, realm, and people. And everything was snatched right in front of me while I was charged for committing grievous sins for challenging the gods and slaughtering my own kind.
but in reality it was the game of these gods, who slaughtered my kind and snatched my everything by using friendship as a weapon because they knew that no one in the entire god realm could even hold a candle in front of us in terms of strength or technology, and in our naiveness, we trusted that bastard otaku who betrayed us and helped his kind that slayed my kind right in front of me!"